Starting fail with symbolic link datadir in c:\users\... #529

issue rPman opened this issue on September 24, 2011

rPman commented at 6:33 AM on September 24, 2011: none

client version: 0.4.0-beta os: windows7 64bit

My bitcoin's datadir folder is symbolic link to folder on removable drive (all of them is ntfs file system), when i use latest version from bitcoin.org it fail with empty error message box and crashed. In debug.log put 2 messages:

EXCEPTION: N5boost11filesystem316filesystem_errorE
boost::filesystem::create_directory: Невозможно создать файл, так как он уже существует: "C:\Users\rpman\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin"
C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin\bitcoin.exe in AppInit()

It's russian localisation, translated message is:

Can not create file because it already exists:

If remove symbolic link and make local copy, program starts and work fine. Also -datadir command line argument to removable drive helps too.
gavinandresen commented at 2:44 PM on September 24, 2011: contributor

I'm closing this as "unsupported-- use -datadir= to put your wallet someplace else."
gavinandresen closed this on Sep 24, 2011
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